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Recognition and Power: Axel Honneth and the Tradition of Critical Social Theory

By David Owen , Bert Van Den Brink

Book information

Year
2007
ISBN
0521864453, 9780521864459
LCC
B809.3 .R42 2007
Open Library ID
OL20403837M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1801247 bytes)
Pages
416\415
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The topic of recognition has come to occupy a central place in contemporary debates in social and political theory. Rooted in Hegel's work, developed by George Herbert Mead and Charles Taylor, it has been given renewed expression in the recent program for Critical Theory developed by Axel Honneth in his book The Struggle for Recognition. Honneth's research program offers an empirically insightful way of reflecting on emancipatory struggles for greater justice and a powerful theoretical tool for generating a conception of justice and the good that enables the normative evaluation of such struggles.

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